1943.50.591.A: Small Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls (one of a pair)
Ritual ImplementsIdentification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.50.591.A
- Title
- Small Jade Disk with Pattern of Plastic Curls (one of a pair)
- Classification
- Ritual Implements
- Work Type
- disk
- Date
- 475 BCE - 221 BCE
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Period
- Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/204292
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Greenish gray and blackish, faintly translucent stone with calcified areas
- Dimensions
-
0.5 x 4.9 cm (3/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
unspecified: 18 g
Published Text
- Catalogue
- Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
- Authors
- Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber
- Publisher
- Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1975)
Catalogue entry no. 354 by Max Loehr:
354 Pair of Small Disks with Pattern of Plastic Curls
Greenish gray and blackish, faintly translucent stone. The calcified areas at the edges of both pieces have partly disintegrated. The irregularly rounded disks are decorated with more or less concentrically arranged curls executed in relief with spiral incisions, in a technique that appears to stand midway between that of Nos. 353 and 355. Eastern Chou.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.50.591.A
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Chinese Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, Fogg Art Museum, 1975)., cat. no. 354a, p. 238
Verification Level
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